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From schlubby side-character to rom-com leading man, Seth Rogen has had quite the journey through Hollywood.  Though most people think of Rogen as the funny guy with the crazy laugh, Rogen has become one of the most versatile talents working today.  Not only is he a terrific actor, he’s a great writer, director, and producer, dabbling in all different genres and mediums.  Rogen is always a joy to see on screen and these are the…

It seems inevitable that an actor will at some point end up behind the camera as a director.  The results of this happening, however, are mixed. Some actors-turned-directors start off with a dud, others start with a bang.  This list focuses on the latter.  Here are my picks for the best directorial debuts from actors-turned-directors.         5 – A BRONX TALE (Robert De Niro, 1995) By the time 1995 rolled around, Robert De…

Happy 420, kids!  It’s that special holiday where people all over the world celebrate their love for marijuana.  There are number of ways of celebrating this day, but the way I like to celebrate it is by watching stoner films.  Whether they are films about stoners, which mostly include either a minimalist plot or one of extreme circumstance centered around a lovable, naive stoner, or films that would be a trip while getting high, a…

For over fifteen years, Will Smith was the man.  He was an actor who’s movies made tons of money and were well-received critically, along with getting some play from the Oscars.  He also had a personality unlike anyone else in Hollywood and was always the coolest person in the room.  But over the last decade, Smith has hit a rough patch, a very brutal rough patch at that.  I don’t know what happened, but Smith’s choice in…

It was reported yesterday that John Woo’s 1997 action classic Face/Off is getting a remake at Paramount Studios.  Face/Off is truly a classic 90’s action flick in which John Travolta plays FBI agent Sean Archer who takes the face of criminal mastermind Castor Troy (one of the greatest character names in all of cinema), played by Nicolas Cage, in order to infiltrate his gang and foil Troy’s terrorist plot.  But the plan goes awry when Troy assumes the…

It’s weird to think, but we might be in the golden age of dog movies right now.  With films like A Dog’s Purpose, A Dog’s Way Home, and Isle of Dogs, it seems like every year for the past five years we have gotten a dog movie or two.  This Friday, we get our third dog movie of 2019 with The Art of Racing in the Rain, a movie that is sure to make every theater patron ball their eyes…

Quentin Tarantino is one of the few event filmmakers working today. When a new Tarantino movie is coming out, a buzz immediately grows around it. This is thanks to a history of creating genre-bending, original, uniquely written movies for the last thirty years. Tarantino’s career has been full of accolades. His films have accounted for 34 Oscar nominations, including four of his films, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, being nominated for Best…